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  1. Re:Strawman defeated on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    I spent 20-years in school

    Perhaps if you learned to take notes properly you'd progress a bit faster.

  2. Re:Unnecessary pluralization on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Economic is the singular, economics is a plural

    Twaddle. Have you ever studied an economic?

    Economic is an adjective: the Honda Civic is economic to run.

    Generally names of academic disciplines & subjects are uncountable nouns.

  3. Re:Unnecessary pluralization on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    The word math is plural

    No it isn't. You can't have one math, half a math or 17.3 math.

  4. Re:Interesting quotes from TFA on Apple Sets Up China Data Center To Meet New Cybersecurity Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked for a Chinese youxian gongsi (LLC), and was a director, while married to the CEO. There was no government member on the board.

    None that you know of.

  5. Re:Interesting quotes from TFA on Apple Sets Up China Data Center To Meet New Cybersecurity Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    can not be done without Apple's knowledge != can not be done.

  6. Re:Three different sources, three different units on Iceberg the Size of Delaware, Among Biggest Ever Recorded, Snaps Off Antarctica (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the Imperial unit. The metric one is the Belgium.

    1 Delaware = 21.13 Centibelgiums

  7. Re:The laws in question are Chinese, FYI on Apple Sets Up China Data Center To Meet New Cybersecurity Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What you say is true, but common sense should tell you that US law wouldn't mandate locating data centres in China.

    Now if it had said Russia...

    TYIHAW,DFTTYW

  8. Re:Interesting quotes from TFA on Apple Sets Up China Data Center To Meet New Cybersecurity Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    On the client != Only on the client.

  9. Re:Interesting quotes from TFA on Apple Sets Up China Data Center To Meet New Cybersecurity Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No. It's absolutely impossible to produce variants of a product. Totally. Which is why you never see the same white goods in the UK and France apart from the different plug and the handle on the other side, etc etc.

  10. Re:Crutches prevent learning to walk on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    That only matters if you already know what you are doing and the goal isn't to master the subject material.

    If that's the case why are you turning up?

  11. Re:Crutches prevent learning to walk on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Bizarre, isn't it? It's one of those things everybody knows is true even when it isn't.

    Because on the surface, I guess, it looks quite plausible.

  12. Re:Sweeping statements on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Found the aspie!

  13. Re:Strawman defeated on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Typing a verbatim transcript of the class can be a somewhat mindless activity as one zones out and merely recognizes words without context and types them up.

    Hence the old joke about a lecture being a method fro transferring words from the teacher's page to the student's, without passing through the brain of either.

    I'd like to know what GP is smoking. And where I can get some.

  14. Re:Crutches prevent learning to walk on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    Are those quick enough? I tried once taking notes on a lappie and I couldn't do it fast enough, plus I was concentrating on the typing and not the meeting.

    Even with my idiosyncratic handwriting I'd rather scrawl & scribble then write it up neatly later.

  15. Re:Crutches prevent learning to walk on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's the plural because it ends in s. Of course it's an irregular one, since it doesn't have an apostrophe.

    Some unfortunate kids only get to study one economic, one physic and a lone solitary civic.

  16. Re:The lock cycles were avg 200 us each on 24 Cores and the Mouse Won't Move: Engineer Diagnoses Windows 10 Bug (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd write it out in full, just to avoid ambiguity.

  17. those who drank three or more cups a day were found to have a 18% lower risk of death for men, and a 8% lower risk of death for women

    The SJWs are gong to be all over this. There'll probably be lawsuits.

  18. Re:"...the center of mobile" on Facebook Messenger Globally Tests Injecting Display Ads Into Inbox (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Alabama.

  19. Re:He must be ugly on Tech Boss Attacks 'Whiners' in Angry Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Did the person you're replying to top post?

  20. Knockoffs implies somebody's selling tracks supposedly by Elton John (or substitute any act that people have heard of) when it's really some pub singer.

    I don't think that's the case here. They're selling pub band as pub band.

  21. Re:He must be ugly on Tech Boss Attacks 'Whiners' in Angry Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    While the latter isn't sexual harassment, it's terrible for morale, and can be incredibly disruptive.

    Doubly so when it ends.

  22. Re:Treason is an idea afterall... on Trump Proposes Joint 'Cyber Security Unit' With Russia, Then Quickly Backs Away From It (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the US has active trade and diplomatic relations with Russia

    Russia and Putin aren't the same entity, though some may think otherwise.

  23. You'll probably find that 100 companies are responsible for 71% of everything.

  24. Like "common core" which inexplicably got labeled as satanic brainwashing rather than an easier way to learn addition.

    Common core isn't a way to learn anything. It's about ability standards, not teaching methods.

  25. Re:Microsoft haters on Ubuntu Is Now Available On the Windows Store (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure it's not a stack?